Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.